Originally posted on 39AndHoldingClub site July 19, 2014 - please enjoy again!
Most of the time as a “retiree” (excuse me while I laugh into my
coffee), I have no need to wear anything other than the sloppiest of casual
clothes.
However, I’m not (yet) a hermit and
there are those times when I must face the public. I would like to do so in
something other than my 20-year-old halfway decent fashions.
But shopping for clothes is no
longer the fun past time that once showed off my bargain finds, demonstrating
fashion sense for mere cents.
I have … ahem … “matured.” While I enjoy the added wisdom of my mental
maturity, I do not appreciate my body’s insistence on keeping up with my
bulging brain.
I will not soon again, however, don a
mini-skirt (stop laughing! I once rocked 'em ...
and yes, young’uns, you are simply regurgitating our '60s-revolutionary style)
… yet nearly all of the current fashions fit me like one! I would like to find something
“in my size” in our department stores.
Does it truly escape the attention
of designers and retailers that the FIRST sizes to sell out in a popular style
are the AVERAGE and PLUS sizes?? Do you not recognize that “average” sizes in
reality, are 12 – 18, NOT sizes 6 – 10?
Have the clothing manufacturers adopted the same stick-it-to-the-consumer ploy as grocery suppliers?
Do they REALLY believe we don’t notice that we’re paying the same price for a loaf of bread – in which the slices are SMALLER than they were five years ago?!
Does it truly escape the attention
of designers and retailers that the FIRST sizes to sell out in a popular style
are the AVERAGE and PLUS sizes?? Do you not recognize that “average” sizes in
reality, are 12 – 18, NOT sizes 6 – 10?Have the clothing manufacturers adopted the same stick-it-to-the-consumer ploy as grocery suppliers?
Do they REALLY believe we don’t notice that we’re paying the same price for a loaf of bread – in which the slices are SMALLER than they were five years ago?!
Note to clothing manufacturers –
that doesn’t work in fashion.
You can’t call it a size 14 and MAKE
it in a size 10. You’re alienating curvy women who have just as much money as
the skinny ones … and 39ers+ generally have more income ... but I for one, am not buying many clothes. Nothing fits!
EVERY season we are subjected to short supply of fun, kicky, PROPERLY
FITTING styles in sizes and PRICES that apply to many mature women … and
although I haven’t asked, I’ll assume 39ers+ men face the same frustrating issues.
And by the way, we curvy women also
like SOME of the styles you create for the petite and offer in larger sizes –
but we also need fashions that flatter our bodies, not “sacks” or completely
inappropriate designs that accentuate our flaws.
My suggestion:
revise current erratic sizing categories (apparently a predominantly US
problem) to a
to a GLOBAL STANDARD (once again).
to a GLOBAL STANDARD (once again).
* PLUS sizes 12 to 18 – become
AVERAGE, with the largest style quantity; this relocates size 18 from Plus
* 6 to 12 sizes – become SMALL
* 00 to 4 – become PETITE
* Sizes 20 + (1X etc) - remain PLUS
What is high on my lottery winning
list? To create a fashionable and PERFECTLY fitting, AFFORDABLE line of
clothing for "mature" but FUN and fashion-conscious people who are no longer the size they were in high school,
but haven’t withdrawn from society. We love life too!
Ciao for now ...
Ciao for now ...
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